As all professions avail themselves of
the furthering of their respective fields, there are special people who become
icons and role models for all members and others to admire, emulate, and hold
special respect for their accomplishments and service to their field of calling.
The World Clarinet Alliance, as part of its mission to effectively promote the
Clarinet Profession, has promoted these ideals through exposure of
accomplishments by all levels of players, teachers, students, and others
connected to the Clarinet and Music field.

Listed below, with an increasing list
updated frequently, are Artist VIP's who have been bestowed this status from the
above attributes. Many of these artists wear the Official WKA Artist VIP Polo
Shirt recognizing their position with WKA and the profession. These artists
represent the pinnacle of the field, as Orchestral members and soloists,
Professors, Jazz Soloists, Instrument Artisans, and others.

Sir Neville Marriner - World Acclaimed Conductor and Conductor of the
Academy of St Martins in the Fields in London, founder of the St Paul Chamber
Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, former Conductor with the
London Symphony and the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, and Founding
President of the World Clarinet Alliance -
WKA in Stuttgart, Germany in 1988

Mariam Adam - Renowned Clarinetist and Founding
member of IMANI Winds in New York, The
TransAtlantic Ensemble, and co-founder of the AdZel Duo, specializing in Ethnic
Music with 2 Clarinets

BORIS ALLAKHVERDYAN - Newly
appointed Solo Clarinetist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York and
formerly Solo Clarinetist in the Kansas City Philharmonic

Deborah Andrus - Second and Eb clarinetist with the Allentown Symphony
Orchestra, and member of the SATORI Chamber Ensemble and the East Winds Quintet;
Artist-Lecturer in Clarinet at Moravian College and Lehigh University

Christy Banks - Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone
at Millersville University in Pennsylvania and acclaimed Soloist and Chamber
Music Artist; Director and Founder of the Millersville University Single Reed
Symposium.

Diane
Barger - Hixson-Lied Professor of Clarinet at the
University of Nebraska School of Music and a member of the Moran Woodwind
Quintet. She currently serves as principal clarinet with Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra

John Corigliano -
Renowned American Composer, Pulitzer Prize Recipient and Chair of
Composition at the Juilliard School and Distinguished Professor of Music at
Lehman College, City University of New
York, which has established a scholarship in his name

Stanley Drucker - Solo Clarinetist Emeritus in the New York Philharmonic;
Recipient of Guinness Book of Records as longest standing Professional
Clarinetist in Music History, Newly initiated into the listings of Musicians in
the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Society;
Conferred Honorary Doctor of Music at the University of Florida 1 May 2010

Alexander
Fiterstein -
First
Prize winner at the Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition and
received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant - Award - Professor at
the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland

Rocco Parisi -
International Soloist in Clarinet and Bass Clarinet;
Professor at the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria, Italy

Jean-Marie Paul - Major authority on Clarinet Reperoire and Director of Publications and Communications with
Vandoren Paris;
A founding member of the World Clarinet Alliance - WKA in 1988 in Stuttgart,
Germany

Randall
Paul - Professor and Chair of the Music Department at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio)

Alcides Rodriguez - Acclaimed Soloist and Bass
Clarinetist; member of the Atlanta Symphony

Marie Ross - International Authority on Performance
of Clarinet Historical Instruments; Associate Principal Clarinetist with
the French orchestra, Ensemble Matheus (Jean-Christophe Spinosi) where she
performs everything from Mozart on the 5-key classical clarinet to premieres of
contemporary works by composers like Guillaume Connesson on the modern clarinet

Alia Sabur - WKA Student Affairs Chairperson; Youngest Professor in the
Guinness Book of Records and Professor at Konkuk University in Seoul, Korea;
Prodigy Clarinetist with Ricardo Morales

Margaret Thornhill - Renowned Clarinetist and Professor at
Concordia College in California and Director of the Los Angeles Clarinet Choir

Antonio Tinelli - International Soloist, Professor of clarinet in the Music
Conservatory "E.R. Duni" of Matera as well as a Visiting Professor at the
Academy of Arts of Tirana, Italy; Artistic Director of the International
Clarinet Competition "Saverio Mercadante"

Anna Vinnitsky - Pre-eminent Concert Pianist, Chamber Music Artist,
Pedagogue, Accompanist for many of the Premier Clarinetists Internationally -
Faculty at both St. Luke’s School and Lucy Moses School at the Kaufman Center in
New York City as well as a staff accompanist position at the Mannes College of
Music

Pavel Vinnitsky - Renowned Soloist, Chamber
Music Artist, Associate Clarinetist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and
other Orchestras in New York